And just like that... MAFS is over

Oh no, I'm so sorry those programmes aren't allowed to be manipulative and exploitative and unable to safeguard people on them from being raped and now you have nothing to watch because apparently your TV only shows shitty reality TV shows

Jesus Christ WTAF is wrong with you.

I am pretty sure that if I was an expert psychologist / therapist I would refuse to work on anything like MAFS on ethical grounds.

But then vets supervise abattoirs.

It has really pissed me off, now I've watched the Panorama, that it has taken these ladies coming forward to start the wheels in motion.
My friend played me some catch up MAFS AUS once and I was genuinely horrified by

• the blatant gaslighting of contestants
• the aggression and violence
• the vile misogyny that seemed to go unremarked and unchecked
• the deliberate pairing of unsuitable couples
• deliberate casting of seriously fucked up, disgusting individuals and the resultant abuse
• the pandering to the 'experts' when they had a 'successful coupling' rate of <0.2% if my maths are correct (Seriously, those 'experts' are a bunch of self -serving souless you know whats).

This show was always about shameful exploitation. I can’t believe anyone is surprised with the outcome.

I remember this, it was almost more presented as seeing if the ‘experts’ got their pairings right. It was not about seeking fame and was more of a look to see if psychology and personality analysis could help find a life partner. I never watched it beyond the first series and I’m glad now!

I only watched the original UK format and a few Aus/US episodes.

I was always struck by how many women would say something along the lines of "well, we were intimate straight away, but we're married!".

There's no problem with being intimate straight away or waiting until marriage - but it struck me as odd that they were justifying it by saying that they were married so it was ok to do it.

Makes me wonder if that's a common line they were fed by producers.

Have you got them mixed up?

anyway back to original thread… just about to watch this. In some ways this is shocking and in others ways it was so obvious and I will admit to watching it and not realising that

Of course.

Which is what C4 should have said. That the allegations must be investigated by the police and C4 will cooperate with the investigation.

Not emphasise that their position was that “allegations were wholly uncorroborated and disputed”.

Essentially sounding like a defence statement.

I’ve not seen the UK MAFS, but given MAFS AUS is absolutely rife for abusive relationships so this comes as no surprise.

I was thinking about this today. I think Big Brother set the scene for influencers etc.

People realised they could become rich and famous for showing their lives on screen, reality TV became popular, then the rise of social media meant you didn't need to win a "pick me" contest with Endemol or whoever, and viewers were already conditioned to watch "normal people"

Next thing you know we've got Mr Beast and Andrew Tate...

Also thread Started here

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/telly_addicts/5531548-mafs-uk-allegations?utm_campaign=thread&utm_medium=share

What a ridiculous statement. C4 are not the arbiters of the validity of the allegations. Nor are the BBC. That’s the police’s job.

God yes I think you are. I honestly don’t know how you come to that conclusion like.

So sad for these women.

Are you saying Eve wasn’t a bully but Charlie was?

MAFS was OK when they had normal people on it. When they were all fake tits, lips, hair extensions and Insta it was shite.

“Channel 4 had previously told Panorama that all the allegations were wholly uncorroborated and disputed.”

So, C4 does not believe women.

Shame on C4.

And yet there's another thread on here about how at least they can watch the US version now (because obviously the rape and sexual assault could only take place on the UK version).

First time I'm honestly shocked and saddened by a group of anonymous posters

Those poor women, what they have gone through sounds awful. I hope they get justice.

Yet over in the MafsUSA etc threads on this site, they are attacking anyone who says anything about these Mafs programs and franchises. Disgusting.

They are all the same format and same family, Channel 4 should remove all formats. Not continue to make money from airing them.

I've never watched any of these shows and never would but what I most definitely would do, without hesitation, is judge someone who did.
If you just read the bare minimum about this stuff you'd surely know that without exception they are based on the use of mostly brainless women being exploited by disgusting men for the entertainment of witless gawpers.
I hope the whole bloody lot of them are cancelled and quickly. There's nothing wrong with reality tv but there's everything wrong with reality tv based on sex, women's looks and vulnerabilities and cock-happy men with not a braincell between them.

This. I mean is anyone actually surprised?

The participants are strongly encouraged by the so-called 'experts' to have sex and if they don't it's considered that the 'marriage' is in trouble.

It's always bothered me that as the years have gone on, more and more emphasis has been put on their sex lives, regardless of how uncomfortable the participants felt. It actually used to give me the rage.

It was only a matter of time before something like this happened.

Disgusting.